Asia/Pacific
Top global refiner Sinopec to cut crude runs by over 10% on Mideast supply squeeze
The cuts by state-owned Sinopec, which accounts for a third of China's refinery output, are part of Beijing's widening measures to curb oil supply disruptions due to Iran's blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for 20% of the world's oil.
Japan to consider whether to buy Russian crude following U.S. sanctions waiver
The U.S. waiver allows countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products currently stranded at sea, in what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said was a step to stabilize global energy markets, which have been roiled by the Iran war.
Australia releases petrol and diesel from emergency reserves
Energy Minister Chris Bowen said the move to allow the release of up to 20% of the baseline minimum stockholding obligation is equivalent to up to 762 MM liters (l) of petrol and diesel.
GEA achieves further milestones with Pre2Fuel: Excellent performance in Bremfield's pretreatment plant in Malaysia
At Bremfield Sdn Bhd biodiesel plant in Klang, Malaysia, which processes used cooking oil (UCO) and palm oil mill effluent (POME) into biofuel, Pre2Fuel has now enabled further technological and economic milestones to be achieved.
- Perpetual Next appoints Bilfinger as lead consultant for its Methanol Moerdijk project 4/1
- ASRock Industrial and CSI Validate O-PAS™ Systems Management Architecture with the iEP-7020E and AiSMA 4/1
- Heavy equipment for KazMunayGas' Atyrau PE plant ships from Shanghai to Kazakhstan 4/1
- KT Tech awarded early engineering works contract for 60,000-tpy SAF plant in Indonesia 4/1
- OCI Global completes sale of OCI Ammonia Holding to AGROFERT 4/1
- Union workers ratify contract at ExxonMobil's Louisiana (U.S.) refining and chemical complex 4/1
